Quotations for restless

And then her look - Oh, where's the heart so wiseCould, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes?Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal.Like those of angels. [ Moore ]

He led on; but thoughtsSeem'd gathering round which troubled him. The veinsGrew visible upon his swarthy brow,And his proud lip was press'd as if with pain.He trod less firmly; and his restless eyeGlanc'd forward frequently, as if some illHe dared not meet were there. [ Willis ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.Descend not from the gods. Each busy brainCreates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. [ Beecher ]

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. [ Lavater ]

Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee. [ Augustine ]

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. [ Macaulay ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]

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